HOWe Things Are…

One could take this to mean vacation is over. In an ideal world, I would wake up on time and not before and also, I would sleep on flight #1 (the short flight to Munich) and maybe for a couple hours on 10 hour flight to Charlotte and then remain awake until say, 7 pm…

It was a market day today. Did some shopping and Robin bought flowers (to plant) from the flower section which was in the square with the clock tower. And we had lunch at a French restaurant. Learned some things: (a) they have “service” at a certain time, not like hours during which you can come…

So, no I did not kayak on the ocean like these people (although the guidebook did say kayaking is THE way to see the calanques, but I think it would be awfully hot and tiring, it’s far). We did a boat tour. Apparently there was a mine in calanque number 1 where they got the…

So finally got around to looking up EU license plate codes. “A” Austria… which makes far more sense than our initial determination of “A” Andorra. And the Norway I was hoping for? Not on the list. Maybe on today’s road trip “H” Hungary? I’m really not holding out hope for CY Cyprus or EST Estonia…

As advertised, it’s warm in southern France in August. I think the German chocolate I purchased for some folks who sent me over with euros to purchase chocolate may not fare well (or have fared well on its two day trip from Germany to here). C’est la vie.. So today, I woke up at 5:30…

So we went to Lyon today. There’s a funicular. The big plan was to park and take the funicular to the top to see the church and the view but the GPS just directed us straight to the church. So we saw the cool view and the seriously cool church at the top of the…

Traveling yesterday and today. Yesterday, more German countryside, entered France, all while playing fun find new countries on license plates (okay, understanding I am way too amused by some things, plus I’ve never been to Europe except for a couple short day trips outside airports (London, Frankfurt, Zurich). So all/some/most of the EU countries have…

Visited a town south of here: Calw. Rhymes with salve… or possibly calf… I really don’t know… I’m calling it Claw. Claw has a city center, which has a German name I knew recently, and looks like the German portion of Epcot Center. The buildings with the criss-cross-y timbers, cobblestone streets… and for added Disney-ness,…

Yesterday’s successful venture: got to an ATM, got cash (to mitigate the whole VISA without the chip issue why I can’t use a credit card because the little machines expect a VISA card with a chip). Unfortunately I don’t know how much cash I need. Now I’m feeling good about ATM’s are okay with my…